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Central American migrant caravans, [1] also known as the Viacrucis del migrante ("Migrant's Way of the Cross"), [2] [3] [4] are migrant caravans that travel from Central America to the Mexico–United States border to demand asylum in the United States.
By 1525 Don Pedro de Alvarado was named conqueror of Guatemala, as well as of Honduras and El Salvador. The Captaincy General of Guatemala was the primary province where the Spanish elite of Central America was. [11] Approximately nearly 60% of Guatemala's population is descended from Spaniards, whether they
"El Tren de la Muerte" has been depicted in literature, news articles, and in films and documentaries. Which Way Home is a 2009 documentary that follows the stories of children who have left their homes to go to the United States. The children, aged from 9 to 15, come from various countries such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico.
Guatemala has pledged a 40% increase in deportation flights carrying Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States, President Bernardo Arévalo announced Wednesday during ...
Guatemala's passport requires two fingerprints and a photograph and signature. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Bank on California , a program launched by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in December 2008, encourages financial institutions to accept the Mexican CID, Guatemalan CID and other CID cards as primary identification for opening bank accounts.
Manuel Estrada Cabrera. Early European immigrants to Guatemala were Spaniards who conquered the indigenous Maya population in 1524. They ruled for almost 300 years. Although the Spanish conquest of Guatemala was primarily the result of its technical superiority, the Spaniards were helped by Nahua allies from central Mexico, and by indigenous Maya who were already involved in bitter struggles ...
Article 3 of the treaty of September 27, 1882, defines the Guatemala-Mexico border as follows: [1] The line along the middle of the Suchiate River, from a point situated in the sea three leagues from its mouth, up river, along its deepest channel, as far as the point [Vertice de Muxbal] where the same river intersects the vertical plane that passes the highest part of the volcano of Tacana ...
The first Afro-Guatemalan arrived in Guatemala in 1524 with Pedro de Alvarado (the “Conqueror of Guatemala”). Records of the Cabildo of Santiago, in Almolonga from the 1530s also mention some enslaved blacks. This first city, founded in 1527 with 150 Spanish residents, was destroyed in September 1541 by an avalanche of water and mud of the ...